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Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

Daniel Defoe
Yesterday, Parent, Ancestry
'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 1, l. 374
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.